YLT ([info]televiser) wrote in [info]found_objects,
@ 2005-07-11 03:13:00
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What we found
My friend recently moved into a home that had previously been inhabited by an elderly polish couple. It is assumed they lived in that house for 30+ years. Last week we rummaged through an outdoor shed and found a number of interesting objects including a box full of old art & office supplies.

[FRIEND WITH THE BOX]


[INDEX TABS & GUMMED REINFORCEMENTS]




[NU METAL TAPE]


[CLICKER QUICK CHEK]


[DARTBOARD BASEBALL?]


[HOMEMADE THREE IN ONE BOARD]


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[info]frumiousb
2005-07-11 08:18 am UTC (link)
The clicker is great. My grandfather had one of those and I had forgotten all about it. Nice find.

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 05:08 pm UTC (link)
thanks. what did your gramps yse it
for? adding up costs in the store?

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[info]frumiousb
2005-07-11 05:14 pm UTC (link)
I don´t know, exactly. Something with accounts, I suppose. He was a poultry/egg farmer, but by the time I can remember the thing it was just an object.

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[info]anchor_dragging
2005-07-11 05:49 pm UTC (link)
My grandma had one of those too, I used to drive her crazy clicking it incessantly-- no idea what its practical application was though.

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[info]a1icey
2005-07-11 08:23 am UTC (link)
these are really super. i love the little index tab matchboxes.

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 05:07 pm UTC (link)
thank you. yes, the index tabs were my favorite find
that day. my friend let me take those home.

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[info]psychococa
2005-07-11 09:40 am UTC (link)
cool findings and your icon. we need more sign language icons!

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 04:44 pm UTC (link)
agreed!

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[info]nikalodeeun
2005-07-11 09:41 am UTC (link)
i need a pot board.

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[info]lesliepear
2005-07-11 10:54 am UTC (link)
I haven't seen reinforcements in years!

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 05:04 pm UTC (link)
What are the applications? Are they
used just as washers?

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[info]lesliepear
2005-07-11 05:32 pm UTC (link)
You stick those on to looseleaf notebook paper that has had a tear in the hole that goes into the binder.

I wonder if kids even use those kinds of notebooks anymore. Looking at school supplies gets me so nostaligic.


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[info]fair_and_fancy
2005-07-11 07:43 pm UTC (link)
I'm 21 and when I was in middle school they were like all the rage for the cool-nerdy types. I swear. How dorky, right? Like every single page of my notebooks would have them.

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[info]adam_j_lupin
2005-07-11 10:39 pm UTC (link)
I still use them. As a practical application but also to decorate stuff. You can get them in all sorts of colours! (My friend even has some metallic ones.)

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[info]aqua_girl_kills
2005-07-12 03:44 am UTC (link)
hehe i still use those, im a college kid tho. i buy the multicolored ones from walmart. im anal rententive about my organization, and i try to make sure i never lose anything. hehe

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[info]cowabunga_tmnt
2005-07-11 10:57 am UTC (link)
I have a dart board that also has baseball on the back... not exactly sure how to play. the "pot board" looks like a home-made michigan rummy/royal rummy board, with the kitty, and the pot, etc... check it out.

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[info]onama
2005-07-11 04:46 pm UTC (link)
my friends and I used to play that game on friday nights after eating chinese. it was a post highschool pre college ritual for us. Ours was homemade too but it looked waaaayyy better than that one! :)

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[info]treefishy
2005-07-11 12:02 pm UTC (link)
we used to have one of those clickers when i was little!

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[info]xgns
2005-07-11 03:47 pm UTC (link)
what are they used for, if you don't mind my asking?

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 05:02 pm UTC (link)
I believe they can be used for several things, like
adding up groceries while strolling through the
store AND counting out change. Now we just
use calculators.

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[info]adam_j_lupin
2005-07-11 10:43 pm UTC (link)
I like this icon a lot.

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 11:17 pm UTC (link)
Its a book by Abbie Hoffman written
under the pseudonym Free.

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[info]adam_j_lupin
2005-07-12 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Nifty, I'll look it up.

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[info]silverstah
2005-07-11 12:46 pm UTC (link)
The last one looks like a homemade Tripoli game - we played that incessantly growing up, and we're now teaching it to my nephew, who loves to bet with his pennies. ;)

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. I had no idea what game it was.
Is Tripoli also called Three In One?

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[info]soosha_q
2005-07-11 02:19 pm UTC (link)
I love finds from a past era. Can I use the Slipknot picture for an icon? If not, it's cool. Don't hesitate to say no just cause you're a nice person or anything. :D

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Go for it. I don't mind users cropping my images for
icons, its when they steal the full image and
post in in their lj/site that I don't
approve.

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[info]soosha_q
2005-07-11 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, you fabulous person you!

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[info]realestate
2005-07-11 03:22 pm UTC (link)
kick ass. several asses.

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 04:52 pm UTC (link)
kicked!

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[info]green_tales
2005-07-11 04:39 pm UTC (link)
I smell ebay!!

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 04:51 pm UTC (link)
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, I'm all too much of a collector to actually SELL any good finds. I'll probably still be displaying the index tabs on a bookshelf in 20 years.

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[info]immortal102100
2005-07-11 06:47 pm UTC (link)
OMG Dartball! \o/ Best game ever involving darts!

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[info]televiser
2005-07-11 07:05 pm UTC (link)
I've never played it! I gotta
look up the instructions.

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[info]monkeysea
2005-07-12 02:40 am UTC (link)
haha, we call that tripoli

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[info]johhnymayhem
2005-07-14 07:29 am UTC (link)
Why's everyone so confused by the dartboard? hahaha.. God you just.. throw darts at it! haha.. And then you do what your dart lands on.. when you get 3 outs.. it's the other team's turn..

You can either mark it down.. or just get some thumbtacks maybe.. for marking bases.

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[info]fairytalesnlies
2005-07-14 06:25 pm UTC (link)
your friend looks like justin timberlake

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[info]televiser
2005-07-16 03:14 am UTC (link)
Shhhhhhhhh!

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